EP1046416A2 - Procédé pour empêcher la polymérisation dans des évaporateurs à couche mince - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a method for preventing polymerization of an easily polymerizable substance in a thin-film type evaporating device.
- the contrivances devoted to the recovery of a product aimed at from the solution entraining high-boiling substances includes a thin-film type evaporating device.
- the method for purifying an easily polymerizable substance will be described below with reference to Fig. 8A and Fig. 8B which illustrate one mode of the conventional vertical thin-film type evaporating device.
- the device mentioned above is provided with a rotary shaft (4) which is disposed on a mechanical seal mounting plate (7) through a mechanical seal part (8) as illustrated in Fig. 8A.
- the rotary shaft (4) penetrates the interior of the devices and reaches a bearing part (15) in the lower part of the device.
- This rotary shaft (4) has a liquid distributor plate (5) connected thereto and is rotated in concert with the operation of the stirring rotary shaft (4).
- Fig. 8B represents a cross section taken through the line a-a in Fig. 8A.
- a wiper (18) fixed with a supporting metal (20) and a rotor (17) for retaining a mist separator (26) are set in position through the distribution panel (5) as illustrated in Fig. 8B.
- the low-boiling substance is gasified, transferred to the upper part of the device via a mist separator (26), and discharged through a vapor outlet (2). Meanwhile, the high-boiling substance is allowed to descend to the interior of the device and discharged through an extracted liquid outlet (10).
- the feed material is moved from the liquid distributor plate (5) of the thin-film type evaporating device to the evaporating heating surface (3) and spread it out with a wiper (18) to form a very thin uniform liquid film. Since the liquid under treatment consequently has a short retention time and evaporates at a low temperature, the device is capable of evaporating a thermally unstable substance. Further, since the device is capable of forming a powerful thin film, it is applicable to a substance which produces a highly viscous residue after concentration and suitable for the distillation of an easily polymerizable substance.
- JP-B-06-53,711 discloses a method for purification which comprises forming a thin film 0.2 - 2 mm in thickness and evaporating the ester through the thin film with an average retention time in the range of 2 - 40 seconds.
- the official gazette of JP-A-11-12,222 also discloses a method for recovering acrylic acid from an acrylic acid solution containing a high-boiling substance of high viscosity by the use of a recovering column which is provided with a thin-film type evaporating device.
- Acrylic acid or methacrylic acid is liable to polymerize at a high temperature.
- the polymerization not only decreases the quantity of purified acrylic acid or methacrylic acid to be obtained as a product but also entails serious problems such as solidification of a polymer in the evaporating device, for example. This polymerization tends to occur in the portion of the thin-film type evaporating device in which the viscosity is particularly high.
- the distillation of acrylic acid is carried out in vacuum of a high degree at the lowest permissible temperature such as not higher than 100 °C for the purpose of preventing the polymerization, with a polymerization inhibitor such as phenothiazine or hydroquinone added to the distillation system. Since the boiling point of such a polymerization inhibitor is invariably higher than the boiling point of acrylic acid, consequently, the acrylic acid gas fails to include the polymerization inhibitor and the polymerization is not easily inhibited fully satisfactorily.
- the thin-film type evaporating device has a structural problem. Specifically, while the feed raw material is supplied to the evaporating heating surface (3) by the centrifugal force of the liquid distributor plate (5) annexed to the stirring rotary shaft (4) and subjected thereon to thermal distillation, the rotary shaft (4) is constantly kept in rotation during the operation of the device. This rotary shaft (4) penetrates the interior of the thin-film type evaporating device and connects with the rotary shaft driving part (9) disposed in the upper part of the device. The device is provided therein, for the sake of watertightness, with a mechanical seal (8) adapted for the rotary shaft.
- the mechanical seal (8) is one contrivance for preventing leakage of the vapor of distillation and, at the same time, keeping the motion of the rotary shaft (4) from obstruction, the vapor of distillation of an easily polymerizable substance is liable to adhere to the rotating part of the rotary shaft, forms a deposit of the polymer of the substance thereon, and consequently obstructs the rotation of the rotary shaft.
- the polymerization which is induced by the rotation of the rotary shaft (4) occurs also on the bearing part (15) in the device. Especially, at the extracted liquid outlet (10), the polymerization is liable to occur because the viscosity of the liquid in process is at a higher level than the feed raw material.
- the extracted liquid outlet (10) tends to suffer adhesion thereto of the condensate liquid of high viscosity and entail stagnation of the extracted liquid in the lower part thereof.
- the polymer obstructs the rotation of the stirring rotary shaft (4) and forms the cause for stopping the operation of distillation itself and the cause for decreasing the quantity of a product.
- the thin-film type evaporating device requires the interior thereof to be washed periodically and consequently puts an obstruction in the way of its lasting stable operation.
- the thin-film type evaporating device can be used as connected to a distillation column or a recovering column.
- the use of this device in this manner may possibly arise in a case of using the device as a re-boiler for reboiling the liquid extracted from a recovering column and, at the same time, supplying the vapor formed of a distillate component to the recovering column with the object of recovering an easily polymerizable substance aimed at through the top of the recovering column and, at the same time, circulating the liquid extracted through the bottom of the recovering column back to the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the wiper (18) When the liquid extracted from the recovering column is used as the feed raw material to the thin-film type evaporating device, the wiper (18) will possibly seize on the evaporating heating surface (3) and induce the liquid under treatment to polymerize owing to an increase in the viscosity thereof. If this polymerization occurs, acquisition of a distillate component or condensate liquid having relevant components in fixed concentrations will become difficult and manufacture of a stable product will be obstructed.
- the present inventors have discovered that polymerization arising in a thin-film type evaporating device can be effectively prevented by cyclically using a liquid extracted from the thin-film type evaporating device simultaneously with supplying a molecular oxygen-containing gas and adjusting the quantity of liquid per unit length of the evaporating heating surface of the device in the specific range.
- This invention has been established by the studies as a result. To be specific, this invention has the object of providing the following items (1) and (2).
- This invention concerns a method for preventing an easily polymerizable substance from being polymerized in a thin-film type evaporating device by supplying a solution of said easily polymerizable substance to the evaporating heating surface of said device by the centrifugal force of a stirring rotary shaft, characterized by mixing the vapor of distilled vapor of the substance with a molecular oxygen-containing gas and supplying the extracted liquid obtained from the bottom of the device or a solution having lower viscosity than said extracted liquid to a feed raw material inlet thereby adjusting the quantity of the wetting liquid or the solution per unit length of the evaporating heating surface in the range of 0.02 - 2 m 3 /mHr.
- a wide range of polymerizing monomers answer the description "easily polymerizable substance" used in this invention.
- the polymerizing monomer acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, maleic anhydride, styrene, acrylonitrile, and esters thereof, and derivatives thereof may be cited. They may further contain high-boiling substances, solvents, and mixtures of easily polymerizable substances with by-products occurring during the formation thereof.
- acrylic acid and esters methyl ester, ethyl ester, butyl ester, and 2-ethylhexyl ester
- methacrylic acid and esters methyl ester, ethyl ester, propyl ester, isopropyl ester, tertiary butyl ester, and cyclohexyl ester
- methacrylic acid, dimethylaminoethyl (meth)acrylate, and hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate may be cited.
- they may contain solvents and other impurities.
- the acrylic acid solution which contains an acrylic acid dimer, maleic acid, and other impurities may be cited as easily polymerizable substances in addition to acrylic acid in the bottoms obtained from the high-boiling impurity separating column.
- methacrylic acid and methacrylates for example, the mixture of methacrolein, acrylic acid, and acetic acid which is by-produced during the reaction of catalytic gas phase oxidation of methacrylic acid may be cited as an easily polymerizable substance in addition to methacrylic acid.
- This invention is characterized by supplying the extracted liquid from the liquid receiving part to the feed raw material inlet in such a manner that the quantity of a wetting liquid per unit length of the evaporating heating surface is in the range of 0.02 - 2 m 3 /Hr.
- the expression "quantity of wetting liquid per unit length of the evaporating heating surface" as used in this invention means the numerical value obtained by dividing the quantity of the wetting liquid extracted from the thin-film type evaporating device by the unit length of the wetted side as represented by the following equation.
- Quantity of wetting liquid per unit length of the evaporating heating surface [Quantity of liquid extracted from thin-film type evaporating device (m 3 /mHr)/ [ ⁇ ⁇ Inside diameter of evaporating heating surface of thin-film type evaporating device (m)]
- the feed raw material is gradually evaporated in accordance as it advances on an evaporating heating surface (3) in the device toward an extracted liquid outlet (10).
- the thickness of the film of the raw material on the evaporating heating surface (3) therefore, is different in the neighborhood of the raw material inlet (1) and in the neighborhood of the outlet (10) on the evaporating heating surface.
- the raw material tends to stagnate or polymerize unless the neighborhood of the outlet of the evaporating heating surface (3) incurring rise of viscosity secures the wetting liquid in a fixed quantity.
- the quantity of the wetting liquid at varying points of the evaporating heating surface of the thin-film type evaporating device is varied by the length of the evaporating heating surface, the heating temperature, the quantity of the raw material to be fed, the boiling point and the concentration of the easily polymerizable substance, etc.
- the present inventors have discovered that when the easily polymerizable substance mentioned above is used as the raw material feeding liquid, the polymerization of the easily polymerizable substance during the distillation thereof in the thin-film type evaporating device can be inhibited by supplying at least part of the extracted liquid to the raw material inlet (1) thereby securing the aforementioned quantity of the wetting liquid on the evaporating heating surface (3) throughout the entire length of the evaporating heating surface (3) and, at the same time, supplying a molecular oxygen-containing gas.
- a solution obtained somewhere else may be used. Even when the extracted liquid can be used, the solution obtained somewhere else may be used for the purpose of addition to the raw material to be fed.
- the treated liquid may be used as the extracted liquid.
- this liquid can be adapted for the recirculation and consequently enabled to enhance the yield of purification by thermally decomposing the dimer and converting it into an easily polymerizable substance aimed at.
- the present invention adopts the quantity of the liquid (m 3 /Hr) extracted from the thin-film type evaporating device as the criterion for judgment with the object of securing a fixed quantity of the wetting liquid also on the evaporating heating surface in the neighborhood of the extracted liquid outlet (10) in the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the evaporating heating surface (3) of the thin-film type evaporating device brings dryness on the extracted liquid outlet side thereof and constitutes itself a cause for inducing polymerization, depending on the magnitude of the amount of evaporation.
- the speed of evaporation and the quantity of evaporation are varied and the thickness of the film is varied by the difference in the content of the easily polymerizable substance in the raw material to be supplied and the difference in the heating temperature and the vapor pressure.
- the quantity of the wetting liquid can be easily adjusted and the polymerization can be prevented by adjusting the quantity of the extracted liquid to be circulated within the range mentioned above.
- the quantity of the wetting liquid on the evaporating heating surface (3) of the thin-film type evaporating device is required to be in the range of 0.02 - 2 m 3 /mHr. If the quantity of the wetting liquid exceeds 2 m 3 /mHr, the liquid will emit a splash, induce polymerization in the pipe, and cause clogging of the pipe. Conversely, if the quantity of the wetting liquid is less than 0.02 m 3 /mHr, the interior of the thin-film type evaporating device will be liable to dry on the surface and induce polymerization.
- the thin-film type evaporating device to be effectively used in this invention allows both the vertical and the horizontal type in structure.
- the device is not discriminated on account of the difference between the vertical type and the horizontal type.
- the range is preferred to be 0.3 - 1.5 m 3 /mHr.
- the horizontal type it is preferred to be 0.02 - 1 m 3 /mHr because the liquid is liable to emit a splash.
- the quantity of the wetting liquid varies even with the kind of the easily polymerizable substance.
- the quantity of the wetting liquid is preferred to be in the range of 0.2 - 2 m 3 /mHr. This specific range is effective in preventing polymerization because the evaporating heating surface is enabled to form a uniform liquid film in a relatively short period of time and prevented from easily drying.
- the quantity of the wetting liquid proper for this invention even in the thin-film type evaporating device having a fixed surface area and supplying the raw material in a fixed quantity, the quantity of the wetting liquid is variable.
- the quantity of the extracted liquid it is usual to adjust the quantity of the extracted liquid after the thin-film type evaporating device to be used has been set.
- This invention in respect that the quantity of the wetting liquid varies with the inside diameter of the evaporating heating surface of the thin-film type evaporating device, enables a thin-film type evaporating device capable of handling the wetting liquid in a quantity specified above to be selected in conformity with the process and consequently prevents polymerization which possibly occurs in the device.
- the thin-film type evaporating device can use steam, oil, etc. though not exclusively.
- the temperature of this heat transfer medium is preferably not higher than 200°C, and more preferably not higher than 180°C. If the temperature of the heat transfer medium is high, though this high temperature will prove favorable from the viewpoint of the quantity of the wetting liquid as by increasing the difference in temperature between the heat transfer medium and the raw material to be supplied and decreasing the evaporating heating surface and the inside diameter of the evaporating device, it will be at a disadvantage in possibly causing the raw material to succumb to polymerization owing to the increase in the temperature of the evaporating heating surface.
- the supply of the easily polymerizable substance to the stirring thin-film type evaporating device is not started until the external cylinder of the device is heated with a heat transfer medium.
- the speed of thermal decomposition or thermal polymerization of a substance is doubled for each rise of temperature by 10°C and that it is in direct proportion to the length of the heating time.
- the temperature inside the external cylinder of the stirring thin-film type evaporating device therefore, is preferred from the viewpoint of preventing polymerization to fall in the lower portion of the range of temperature specified for quick distillation of the easily polymerizable substance to be supplied. In the range mentioned above, this temperature is higher preferably by 5 - 80°C, more preferably by 20 - 50°C, than the boiling point of the easily polymerizable substance under the pressure of distillation.
- This invention is characterized by performing the aforementioned adjustment of the quantity of the wetting liquid simultaneously with the supply of the molecular oxygen-containing gas into the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the polymerization of an easily polymerizable substance is inhibited by adding a varying polymerization inhibitor such as phenothiazine to the substance during the course of the process.
- the polymerization inhibitor cannot exist in the gas phase resulting from the evaporation of the easily polymerizable substance because it is a high-boiling substance.
- the raw material supplying liquid contains a polymerizable substance, therefore, the polymerization thereof cannot be inhibited fully satisfactorily.
- the molecular oxygen-containing gas which possesses an effect of inhibiting polymerization is supplied with the object of inhibiting the polymerization.
- the molecular oxygen-containing gas can be used as a polymerization inhibitor in a form added to the polymerization inhibitor mentioned above or in an independent form.
- air can be used besides oxygen gas.
- the quantity of the molecular oxygen-containing gas to be supplied is in the range of 0.01 - 5 vol. %, preferably 0.02 - 3 vol. %, based on the quantity of the vapor of the easily polymerized substance (as reduced to the standard conditions) generated in the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the expression "quantity of the vapor resulting from evaporation” as used herein means the total quantity of the monomer vapor of the easily polymerizable substance supplied to the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the method for supplying the molecular oxygen-containing gas may comprise either directly mixing the gas with the easily polymerizable substance, i.e. the raw material to be fed, as by means of bubbling or indirectly mixing the gas as dissolved in a solvent with the easily polymerizable substance.
- the molecular oxygen-containing gas is preferred to be supplied into the thin-film type evaporating device through a molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (14) or a molecular oxygen-containing gas inlet (13) as illustrated in Fig. 2.
- the site for the supply of this sort is preferred to fall in the periphery part of a mechanical seal (8) of the stirring rotary shaft (4) in the device.
- the mechanical seal (8) is one kind of contrivance for proofing the stirring rotary shaft (4) against leakage. Since it prevents the leakage by establishing contact between the ring rotating in concert with the shaft and the stationary ring and causing the rings to slide against each other, it produces a nearly perfect airtight watertight closure. Since the interior of the thin-film type evaporating device constantly remains in a heated state and tends to induce adhesion of the distillate component and polymerization thereof, the eventual adhesion of the polymer interferes with smooth rotation of the rotary shaft. By supplying the molecular oxygen-containing gas via the periphery part of the mechanical seal (8), therefore, it is made possible to inhibit the polymerization liable to occur in the portion of the mechanical seal (8).
- the molecular oxygen-containing gas is supplied through the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (14) which is disposed in the mechanical seal fixing plate (7) as illustrated in Fig. 1, therefore, the gas so supplied prevents the polymerization tending to occur in the periphery part of the mechanical seal (8), though the periphery part mentioned above constitutes itself the site for the presence of the vapor gas of the heated easily polymerizable substance and tends to induce polymerization.
- Fig. 2A illustrates one mode of providing the pipe (14) in the mechanical seal fixing plate (7) and Fig. 2B illustrates one mode of disposing the supplying inlet (13).
- the mode of Fig. 2A is furnished with the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (14) piercing the mechanical seal fixing plate (7) and reaching the periphery part of the mechanical seal (8).
- the mode of Fig. 2B is not furnished with such a pipe but is provided with the supplying inlet (13) piercing the mechanical seal fixing plate (7) and serving the purpose of supplying the molecular oxygen-containing gas to the periphery part of the mechanical seal (8).
- the molecular oxygen-containing gas from an external source is supplied to the neighborhood of the mechanical seal (8) in the device and the gas so supplied is enabled to prevent polymerization from occurring in the mechanical seal part.
- the number of pipe (14) and supplying inlet (13) does not need to be limited to one but may be two or more as occasion demands.
- the device may be provided with the supply inlet (13) and the pipe (14) simultaneously.
- the pipe (1) is at an advantage in allowing the device to be manufactured easily and the supplying inlet (13) is at an advantage in inhibiting adhesion of the polymer resulting from the polymerization of the easily polymerizable substance because the pipes laid in the mechanical seal fixing plate (7) have no undulating part.
- the piping member may use an ordinary material which is generally used in the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the destination of the supply of the molecular oxygen-containing gas does not need to be limited to the periphery part of the mechanical seal (8) mentioned above.
- the known thin-film type evaporating device may be cited which effects the supply of the easily polymerizable substance to itself for the purpose of evaporation therein by means of the centrifugal force of the stirring rotary shaft.
- This thin-film type evaporating device is provided somewhere in the evaporating part (6) thereof with the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying inlet (13) or the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (14). Further, as illustrated in Fig.
- this invention designates the portion of the interior of the thin-film type evaporating device possessing the evaporating heating surface (3) as the evaporating part (6), designates the portion forming the terminal part of the evaporating part (6) and extending to the discharge outlet (10) for the extracted liquid as the liquid receiving part (12), and includes the liquid receiving part (12) in part of the evaporating part (6).
- the thin-film type evaporating device which is possessed of the liquid receiving part (12) as part of the evaporating part (6) is capable of supplying the molecular oxygen-containing gas to the liquid receiving part (12).
- the liquid receiving part (12) which has the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe pierce the liquid receiving part (12) and reach the interior thereof as illustrated in Fig. 3B may be cited.
- the liquid receiving part which is not provided with such a pipe but is provided with the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying inlet (13) the liquid receiving part (12) which has the supplying inlet (12) for supply of a molecular oxygen-containing gas penetrate through the liquid receiving part (12) as illustrated in Fig. 3A may be cited.
- the supply of the molecular oxygen-containing gas by the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (13) to the central part of the liquid receiving part (12) permits the gas to be easily mixed with the distillate component.
- the supplying inlet (13) or the pipe (14) may exist anywhere in the liquid receiving part (12) and is not discriminated on account of location or even quantity.
- the liquid receiving part (12) is possibly provided on the outside thereof with a heating part with the object of heating the extracted liquid.
- the supplying inlet (13) or the pipe (14) be disposed anywhere other than the heating part.
- the quantity of the pipe (13) does not need to be limited to one but may be two or more.
- the gas supplying inlet (13) and the gas pipe (14), when necessary, may be simultaneously provided.
- the pipe (13) is preferred to reach in proximity of the central of the liquid receiving part (12).
- the device which is provided in the periphery part of the mechanical seal (8) with the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (14) or the supplying inlet (13) may be additionally provided in the liquid receiving part (12) with the supplying pipe (14) or the supplying inlet (13).
- the piping member may use a material generally used in the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the extracted liquid discharge outlet (10) may be supplied with either the extracted liquid or a solution having lower viscosity than the extracted liquid.
- this viscosity itself lowers the flow speed of the extracted liquid, suffers the extracted liquid to stagnate easily in the outlet, and renders difficult the discharge of the extracted liquid from the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the solution produced by subjecting the extracted liquid to a specific treatment may be used as the extracted liquid.
- a solution from some other source which has viscosity equal to or higher than the viscosity of the extracted liquid may be used when necessary.
- the evaporating part (6) includes as part thereof the liquid receiving part (12) which is directed from the lower terminal part of the evaporating heating surface (3) toward the extracted liquid discharge outlet (10).
- the supply of the extracted liquid to the discharge outlet (10) in the thin-film type evaporating device is accomplished by circulating the extracted liquid from the extracted liquid supplying inlet (10) of the liquid receiving part (12), optionally through the external pipe (11) connected to the supplying inlet (10), to the liquid receiving part (12).
- This pipe (11) is convenient in respect that it is capable of continuously supplying the extracted liquid to a specific place.
- the pipe (11) mentioned above assumes a structure of circulating through the extracted liquid discharging outlet (10) and the liquid receiving part (12) as illustrated in Fig. 1.
- the method for supplying the solution mentioned above does not need to be limited to the use of the pipe (11) mentioned above but may resort to the spray of the solution in the direction of the outlet (10).
- the device which is possessed of the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying pipe (14) and the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying inlet (13) mentioned above and is further provided in the liquid receiving part (12) thereof with the pipe (11) for supplying the extracted liquid or the solution having lower viscosity than the extracted liquid to the extracted liquid discharging outlet (10) and the extracted liquid supplying inlet (not shown) as illustrated in Fig. 1 may be cited.
- the solution supplying pipe (11) may be laid through anywhere in the liquid receiving part (12). The quantity of the pipe is irrelevant.
- the piping member may use a material generally used for the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the thin-film type evaporating device to be used in this invention does not necessarily require the stirring rotary shaft (4) built therein to be provided in the lower terminal part thereof with a bearing part.
- the vertical thin-film type evaporating device of a large size requires itself to be provided in the lower part thereof with a bearing part (15) as illustrated in Fig. 1 or requires an addition to the diameter of the shaft. Since the increase of the diameter of the shaft boosts the cost, the provision of the bearing (15) in the lower part is frequently resorted to.
- the bearing part (15) in the lower part often gives rise to a polymer.
- the extracted liquid or the solution having lower viscosity than the extracted liquid is supplied to the bearing part (15) through the bearing part extracted liquid supplying pipe (27) which is laid from outside the device toward the rotary shaft (4) as illustrated in Fig. 4.
- the gap between the stirring rotary shaft (4) and the bearing part (15) is liable to dry because it is held in a heated state.
- the thrust bearing in which the direction of the load to be borne coincides with the axial direction is liable to dry and induce polymerization of an easily polymerizable substance because it manifests a large load bearing force and suffers only small invasion of the extracted liquid.
- the rotational speed of the stirring rotary shaft (4) is consequently lowered.
- This invention therefore, prevents the bearing part (15) from inducing such adverse phenomena as clogging and polymerization by supplying the extracted liquid or the solution of low viscosity to the bearing part (15).
- the method for circulating the extracted liquid through such a bearing part (15) may comprise disposing the bearing part extracted liquid supplying pipe (27) as directed toward the bearing part (15) in the evaporating part and using this pipe for supply of the solution. By spraying the solution in the direction of the bearing part (15), it may be made possible to prevent the surface from drying and preclude the occurrence of the drying and polymerization.
- the bearing part extracted liquid supplying pipe (27) is not provided but the bearing part (15) is provided in advance with the pipe for supplying lubricating oil thereto, for example, the solution may be supplied through this pipe.
- the thin-film type evaporating device is enabled to exalt the effect thereof further by imparting surface roughness, Ry, specified in JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) B 0601 (-1994), of not more than 12.5, preferably not more than 3.2, to part or whole of the surface of the thin-film type evaporating device which is exposed to an easily polymerizable substance.
- Ry surface roughness
- JIS Japanese Industrial Standard
- B 0601 Japanese Industrial Standard
- the buffing is a method of polishing which is mainly adopted for obtaining a smooth surface or a glossy surface and is known in such types as coarse buffing with a stationary abradant, medium buffing with a semisolid or free abradant, and finishing buffing.
- the buffing may be effected by using such flexible materials as leather and cloth and oily agents, non-oily agents, and spray grade agents containing tripolysilicate stone, chromium oxide, silicon carbide, fused alumina, calcined alumina, and chromium oxide as an abradant.
- the electrolytic polishing is a method for smoothing a metallic surface by the action of dissolving.
- the material for the contact surface is iron or steel
- perchloric acid solutions, sulfuric acid solutions, phosphoric acid solutions, and sulfuric acid-phosphoric acid solutions may be used for the electrolytic abrasion. Since iron and steel have their textures greatly vary with not only the difference in composition but also the difference in the degree of heat treatment and machining, the abradants mentioned above may be properly selected to suit the surface of contact to be involved.
- the quantity of acetic anhydride generally added to the perchloric acid type electrolyte, the electrolyzing temperature, the current density, the voltage, the electrolyzing time, etc., therefore, may be properly selected to suit the material of iron and steel.
- the mechanical polishing may be followed by an electrolytic polishing.
- the contact surface of the easily polymerizable substance ought to be construed as embracing the extracted liquid as an easily polymerizable substance. It is permissible to use the extracted liquid cyclically as the feed raw material.
- the extracted liquid outlet (10) is counted among such surfaces for contact with the easily polymerizable substance as described above.
- the welded part is preferred to be chamfered.
- an unevenness is present on the surface exposed to an easily polymerizable substance, it forms the cause for stagnation of the easily polymerizable substance and consequent adhesion of a polymer as described above.
- a corner part is formed in the part for connecting the outlet (10) to the liquid receiving part (12), the polymer is liable to adhere to the corner part. Further, the corner part obstructs the discharge of the extracted liquid.
- the chamfered welded part is preferred to be given a surface roughness, Ry specified in JIS B 0601 (-1994), of not more than 12.5, particularly not more than 3.2.
- the thin-film type evaporating device to be used in the present invention does not need to discriminate the construction thereof between the horizontal type and the vertical type.
- the vertical thin-film type evaporating device is preferred to have the wiper (18) illustrated in Fig. 5B fixed to a rotor (17) through a variable vane supporting rod (19).
- the wiper (18) is generally fixed to the periphery part of the rotor (17) connected to beams projected radially from the stirring rotary shaft (4) and this wiper (18) serves the purpose of forming a thin film on the evaporating heating surface (3).
- the surface pressure of the wiper (18) is preferred to be adjusted by means of the movable vane supporting rod (19).
- variable vane supporting rod (19) The reason for using the variable vane supporting rod (19) is as follows. Specifically, for the adjustment of the wiper pressure, the method which relies on the centrifugal force and the method which relies on the pressure of the variable vane are available. In the case of the method which effects the adjustment by the centrifugal force through the medium of a wiper supporting metal (20) illustrated in Fig. 5A, there are times when the polymer adheres to the wiper (18). The wiper (18) functions to prevent the liquid under treatment from spattering and, at the same times, scrape and push down highly viscous liquid adhering to the surface.
- Fig. 5C which is cross sections taken through the line b-b in Fig. 1 compare the case of effecting the adjustment by the centrifugal force through the wiper supporting metal (20) of the wiper (18) and the case of effecting the adjustment by the variable vane supporting rod (19) respectively in terms of the state of attachment of wiper.
- this invention prefers the so-called cone angle, i.e. the angle between the generating lines of the cone, to be in the range of 40 - 70°, particularly in the range of 50 - 70°. If this angle exceeds 70°, the excess will be at a disadvantage in rendering the discharge of the highly viscous substance from the thin-film type evaporating device difficult. If the angle is less than 40°, the shortage will be at a disadvantage in requiring elongation of the lower axial part.
- Fig. 6 depicts a cone angle (a). This conical part is equivalent to the liquid receiving part (12) mentioned above.
- This invention is characterized by circulating the extracted liquid mentioned above to the raw material supplying inlet (1) thereby adjusting the quantity of the wetting liquid in the range of 0.02 - 2 m 3 /mHr. It, therefore, is characterized also by the constant presence of a solution in the part forming the cone mentioned above.
- This solution gains in viscosity in accordance as the evaporating heating surface shifts and the speed of discharge of the solution is lowered particularly in the neighborhood of the cone in consequence of the rise of the viscosity. Further, on the evaporating heating surface (3), the thin film of concentrated liquid is pushed, spread, and discharged in the direction of the outlet by the advancing force of the continuously supplied liquid and the centrifugal action of the liquid distributing plate (5).
- the extracted liquid is liable to stagnate in consequence of the rise of viscosity because such centrifugal force is absent.
- the method of this invention in the vertical thin-film type evaporating device which forms at the lower end thereof a cone converging from the lower terminal part of the device toward the extracted liquid outlet, prefers the angle formed between the generating line of the cone, to be in the range of 40 - 70°.
- the device which is possessed of such an angle cone is allowed to be provided with such supplying pipes as the molecular oxygen-containing gas supplying inlet and the discharge outlet for the liquid receiving part simultaneously.
- the downward gradient of the evaporating heating surface mentioned above is required to be not less than 1/200, preferably to be in the range of 1/200 - 1/10, and particularly preferably to be in the range of 1/100 - 1/10.
- the rise of the condensate liquid in concentration occurs in the same manner as in the vertical thin-wall type evaporating device as mentioned above. The impartation of the gradient mentioned above, therefore, results in preventing the easily polymerizable substance from stagnating in the interior of the evaporating device.
- the method of this invention is characterized by cyclically using at least part of the extracted liquid in the thin-film type evaporating device or supplying a solution having lower viscosity than the extracted liquid to the raw material supplying inlet (1).
- the extracted liquid may be temporarily stored in a storage tank (29) as illustrated in Fig. 7 and this storage tank may be utilized for the cyclic use mentioned above. It is further allowable to subject the extracted liquid in the storage tank (29) to a specific treatment such as thermal decomposition and thereafter put the treated liquid to cyclic use. Even when the extracted liquid is unusable in its unmodified form, the storage tank (29) is capable of adapting the liquid fit for cyclic use by giving it the treatment mentioned above.
- the effective utilization of the raw material can be materialized by using the storage tank (29) as a vessel for thermal decomposition and consequently decomposing the dimer and converting it into acrylic acid as a finished product.
- the temperature condition of the vessel for thermal decomposition may be properly selected to suit the characteristic properties of the easily polymerizable substance and the high-boiling substance contained therein.
- the solution which has been used therein is destined to form the extracted liquid from the outlet (10) mentioned above.
- the solution supplied as described above is to be included in the extracted liquid.
- This invention permits the liquid extracted from the recovering column disposed in the upper part of the thin-film type evaporating device to be used as the raw material for feeding.
- the use of the thin-film type evaporating device as the re-boiler for the extracted liquid from the acrylic acid recovering column corresponds itself to the case.
- the thin-film type evaporating device allows only a brief retention time, it is important that the device be fed with the raw material supplying liquid constantly in a fixed amount. If the raw material cannot be supplied in the fixed amount, the operation will be deprived of stability and the device will encounter such troubles as formation of polymer.
- This invention puts the liquid extracted from the liquid receiving part (12) to cyclic use also with the object of ensuring stable supply of the raw material. When the liquid extracted from the recovering column (22) is used as the raw material for feeding as mentioned above, there arises the possibility that the supply of the raw material in a fixed amount will not be accomplished.
- This failure may be logically explained by a supposition that a gas leaks into a line (23) starting from the recovering column (22) and returning to the thin-film type evaporating device and the ascent of this gas compels the liquid extracted from the recovering column to flow back.
- This invention contemplates easily and stably supplying the raw material by sealing the pipe with the liquid extracted from the recovering column as illustrated in Fig. 7 or by supplying the liquid extracted from the recovering column under pressure to the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the sealing part (23) using the liquid extracted from the recovering column (22) is disposed in part of the pipe which interconnects the extracted liquid outlet of the recovering column (22) and the thin-film type evaporating device.
- Such a liquid sealing part can be attained by disposing a projecting part arising from below the bottom part of the recovering column and reaching above the raw material supplying part of the thin-film type evaporating device in one part of the pipe interconnecting the extracted liquid outlet of the recovering column (22) and the thin-film type evaporating device and disposing in the projecting part a liquid reservoir to be filled with the liquid extracted from the recovering column (22).
- a projecting part arising from below the bottom part of the recovering column and reaching above the raw material supplying part of the thin-film type evaporating device in one part of the pipe interconnecting the extracted liquid outlet of the recovering column (22) and the thin-film type evaporating device and disposing in the projecting part a liquid reservoir to be filled with the liquid extracted from the recovering column (22).
- the supply of the liquid extracted from the recovering column under pressure to the thin-film type evaporating device as mentioned above may be fulfilled by furnishing the recovering column with a liquid level indicator capable of fixing the position (25, for example) of the liquid level of the bottoms in the recovery column at a fixed position in the recovering column (22) and, at the same time, disposing a pressure device in a part of the pipe interconnecting the outlet for the bottoms and the thin-film type evaporating device, and forcing the liquid extracted from the recovering column (22) under pressure to the thin-film type evaporating device.
- This invention particularly prefers the supply of the raw material to the thin-film type evaporating device to be implemented by forcing the extracted liquid under pressure. The reason for this preference is that the supply effected in this mode also allows a decrease in the retention time of the easily polymerizable substance within the recovering column.
- the recovering column (22) which is connected to the thin-film evaporating device does not need to set any limit on such factors as the theoretical number of steps, the diameter of the recovering column, the choice as to the use of a filler, and the kind of the filler, if used at all.
- the liquid extracted from the recovering column is only required to contain an easily polymerizable substance.
- a vertical thin-film type evaporating device was used which measured 1500 mm in inside diameter, used an evaporating heating surface with a surface roughness, Ry, of 3.2 and a wiper fixed by the pressure of a movable vane, and incorporated therein a cone having an angle of 50°, with a molecular oxygen supplying inlet provided in the periphery part of a mechanical seal and the welded part for the extracted liquid outlet chamfered.
- a solution containing 80 wt. % of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and 1 wt. % of acrylic acid was through in the thin-film type evaporating device at a rate of 1.8 m 3 /Hr.
- the liquid extracted from the thin-film type evaporating device was introduced into storage tank and part of the liquid extracted from the storage tank was circulated to the thin-film type evaporating device.
- the molecular oxygen-containing gas was supplied to the thin-film type evaporating device at a rate of 2.6 Nm 3 /Hr.
- the temperature of the heating face was adjusted in the range of 110 - 130°C and the pressure was at 10 Torrs.
- the quantity of the liquid circulated from the storage tank to the thin-film type evaporating device was set at 3.8 m 3 /Hr so as to fix the quantity of the wetting liquid per unit length relative to the quantity of the liquid extracted from the bottoms of the thin-film type evaporating device at 0.9 m 3 /mHr.
- the quantity of the liquid extracted from the lower part of the thin-film type evaporating device was 4.1 m 3 /Hr, the portion 0.3 m 3 /Hr of which was discarded as waste liquid.
- An operation of the thin-film type evaporating device was performed by following the procedure of Example 1 while omitting the circulation of the liquid from the storage tank to the thin-film type evaporating device and changing the quantity of the wetting liquid per unit length relative to the quantity of the liquid extracted from the lower part of the thin-film type evaporating device to 0.01 m 3 /mHr.
- a recovering column was disposed in the upper part of a thin-film type evaporating device and the liquid extracted from the recovering column was further used as the raw material for feeding.
- a projecting part was formed in a pipe rising from below the bottom part of the recovering column and reaching above the raw material supplying part of the thin-film type evaporating device to provide a liquid seal.
- a distillation column measuring 1300 mm in inside diameter and incorporating therein 10 stepped sieve trays of stainless steel (SUS 316). Through the top of the column kept under pressure of 30 Torrs and at a temperature of 58°C, the raw material was supplied.
- the vertical thin-film type evaporating device used herein measured 1500 mm in inside diameter, used an evaporating heating surface with a surface roughness, Ry, of 3.2 and a wiper fixed by the pressure of a movable vane, and incorporated therein a cone having an angle of 50°, with a molecular oxygen supplying inlet provided in the periphery part of a mechanical seal and the welded part for the extracted liquid outlet chamfered
- the quantity of the liquid circulated from the storage tank to the thin-film type evaporating device was set at 3.4 m 3 /Hr so as to fix the quantity of the wetting liquid per unit length relative to the quantity of the liquid extracted from the bottoms of the thin-film type evaporating device at 0.8 m 3 /mHr.
- the quantity of the liquid extracted from the lower part of the thin-film type evaporating device was 4.0 m 3 /Hr, the portion 0.6 m 3 /Hr of which was discarded as waste liquid
- Example 2 An operation was performed by following the procedure of Example 2 while omitting the disposition of a projecting part in a pipe rising from below the bottom part of the recovering column and reaching above the raw material supplying part of the thin-film type evaporating device thereby avoiding the provision of a liquid seal, the raw material could not be supplied in a fixed quantity and the thin-film type evaporating device suffered formation of polymer therein. Thus, the operation had to be discontinued in two months.
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